Jan Kochanowski „Na Leliwę Tarnowskich” in: „Szachy”, publ. Drukarnia Macieja Wierzbięty, Kraków, 1574, next page after the title page, (unnumbered pages).

You, – new moon, set in happily! [1][2]
With such weather and so healthy for people [3]
Like this who passed, after which you arise
And let's be glad, that you does not set quickly. [4][5]

  1. ↑ Or „Come happily! you, – new moon,”
  2. ↑ Literally: „Set in happily! you, – new moon,” But, for the rhyme: „You, – new moon, set in happily!”
  3. ↑ Or „so healthy for men”
  4. ↑ Or „that you go down not soon.”
  5. ↑ The epigram dedicated to Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, (son of Hetman Jan Tarnowski), with the wish (prophecy), which did not fulfil itself.
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